American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 137
- Number 12
- December 1980
Publication date: 01 December 1980
Pages1495–1501This selective overview looks at the effectiveness of behavior therapy, cognitive-behavior therapy, and cognitive therapy for depressive disorders. The outcome of single-case studies, comparative treatment projects with volunteers, and clinical trials ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.12.1495Publication date: 01 December 1980
Pages1502–1512The author addresses the ethics of psychotherapy in terms of the interface between science and ethics, the goals of treatment, the therapeutic relationship, and special issues of confidentiality and therapist-patient sex. He considers the problems of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.12.1502Publication date: 01 December 1980
Pages1513–1517Patients who made repeated visits to a psychiatric emergency ward and who were studied appeared to comprise a discrete clinical group characterized by a distinct symptom profile, common psychiatric history, and similar styles of interacting with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.12.1513Publication date: 01 December 1980
Pages1518–1522The authors examined the potencies of 22 neuroleptic drugs competing for binding sites associated with dopamine, serotonin, alpha- adrenergic, and histamine receptors in brain membranes. They found that although many neuroleptics are quite potent in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.12.1518Publication date: 01 December 1980
Pages1523–1529Assessment of the family in its own home provides important information about the family's style of regulating its internal environment. The author presents data from a study of families in which one of the spouses was alcoholic. These families were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.12.1523Publication date: 01 December 1980
Pages1530–1533The authors examined the reactions of Spanish-speaking patients and of therapists to initial therapy interviews conducted with or without an interpreter. Twenty-one patients who used an interpreter, 40 bilingual patients, and the 16 psychiatric residents ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.12.1530Publication date: 01 December 1980
Pages1534–1539Findings from a 5-year longitudinal study of 131 children from 60 divorcing families, drawn from a predominantly white, middle-class California population, revealed unexpected changes in the relationship between the visiting parent and the child after the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.12.1534Publication date: 01 December 1980
Pages1540–1545Using a new experimental paradigm to evaluate physical activity in the natural environment, the authors made of 45,694 observations of persons using stairs or an adjacent escalator at a shopping mall, train station, and bus terminal. In study 1, stair use ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.12.1540Publication date: 01 December 1980
Pages1546–1549In the alternation of deconstitution and constitution that is fundamental to human life, humor has a useful role, mainly as a deconstituting force, whereas folklore emphasizes the revitalization of existence. Yet humor can be harmful in situations where ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.12.1546Publication date: 01 December 1980
Pages1553–1562The authors evaluated 11 white men who claimed to have changed sexual orientation from exclusive homosexuality to exclusive heterosexuality through participation in a pentecostal church fellowship. Religious ideology and a religious community offered the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.12.1553Publication date: 01 December 1980
Pages1563–1568Data from a survey of 2,500 American women were examined to determine 1) the nature of religiousness among women and, in particular, whether modern religiousness corresponds to William James' conception of "healthy-minded" religion; 2) how religiousness ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.12.1563Publication date: 01 December 1980
Pages1569–1573This follow-up study describes a cult whose leader became cruel and increasingly bizarre. Six of 14 members who were investigated at the time of the cult's formation remained loyal to the leader until the dissolution of the group almost four years later. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.12.1569Publication date: 01 December 1980
Pages1574–1579The author studied the psychological aspects of religious conversion during structured 21-day workshop sequences designed to introduce people to the Unification Church. Subjects were given a battery of tests at different times during the sequence. After ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.12.1574Publication date: 01 December 1980
Pages1580–1582The author evaluated a random sample of 25 patients suffering from a variety of phobic anxiety states who were treated with desensitization using thiopental sodium combined with progressive reduction in the use of oral anxiolytic medication. At 24-week ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.12.1580Publication date: 01 December 1980
Pages1583–1585The authors conducted a double-blind placebo-controlled study in which patients with a wide range of manic symptoms were administered 20 mg of naloxone subcutaneously. Naloxone failed to improve manic severity, activation-arousal, or elation-grandiosity ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.12.1583Publication date: 01 December 1980
Pages1586–1588The authors report a study or records maintained by private practitioners for their Medicaid patients. The quality of record keeping in general fell far short of Medicaid requirements. Board- certified or hospital-affiliated psychiatrists kept better ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.12.1586Publication date: 01 December 1980
Pages1589–1591The author suggests that measuring utilization of benefits for nervous and mental disorders by using the percent of total benefits paid is imprecise because even small changes in the much larger portion of benefit payments that are attributable to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.12.1589Publication date: 01 December 1980
Pages1591–1594To describe psychosocial adaptation after coronary artery surgery and to identify preoperative factors associated with good outcome, the authors interviewed 30 patients before and 1--2 years after surgery. Despite good physiologic outcome (as measured by ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.12.1591Publication date: 01 December 1980
Pages1595–1598The author describes a comprehensive four-year educational program for training psychiatric residents in marital and family therapy. Residents receive an average of 70 hours of didactic instruction and 175 hours of one-on-one supervision in family therapy;...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.12.1595Publication date: 01 December 1980
Pages1599–1602Using an anonymous questionnaire, the authors assessed the professional relevance of outpatient and inpatient curricula and the didactic value of different parts of the clerkship for 80 junior medical students randomly assigned to a pilot clerkship. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.12.1599Publication date: 01 December 1980
Pages1602–1605The author compared the annual arrest rates through 1978 of 301 state mental hospital patients released in 1972--1975 with arrest rates of the local county (San Mateo County) population in 1978. The data do not easily allow acceptance of the explanation ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.12.1602Publication date: 01 December 1980
Pages1605–1607The authors describe 13 psychotic patients who had Capgras syndrome. Only 4 patients had evidence of organicity. The authors conclude that Capgras syndrome occurs equally in functional psychosis and in the presence of organicity and recommend that the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.12.1605Publication date: 01 December 1980
Pages1607–1608The authors report the results of screening patients admitted to a state psychiatric hospital for unrecognized adult phenylketonuria. The results suggest that unrecognized adult phenylketonuria is very uncommon in these patients.
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Pages1629-b–1629In Philip E. Veenhuis, M.D.'s book review of The Broken Connection by Robert Jay Lifton in the August 1980 issue, the second sentence of the first paragraph on page 1000 should read, "Lifton extensively quotes a 1963 article by Elliot Luby; he sees Luby's ...
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